Panel set to look at the state of wireless
The Senate Communications Subcommittee has scheduled an overview of the wireless industry for next week. The panel is chaired by Mark Pryor (D-AR) with...
Sanford campaign woes will cost Charleston media
The marital problems of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford (R) made national news; and now, a lawsuit filed by his former wife over his alleged failure to abide by divorce terms has the Republican national campaign organization dropping any plans to participate in his congressional campaign.
Video violence bill might tag on to gun bill
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is the sponsor of the Violent Content Research Amendment of 2013, which would initiated a study of how violent content on...
NAB supports foreign broadcast investment increase
The Coalition for Broadcast Investment believes that allowing greater access to foreign capital will make it easier for women and minorities to finance deals...
Genachowski headed for Aspen Institute
In a move that is the opposite of that detailed in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will be taking...
Benchmarking LPFM and FM translators
There are over 15,000 full power AM and FM radio stations licensed in the US right now – and that number doesn’t figure to...
FCC April meeting lacks broadcast interest
The five FCC commissioners will appear together in public, perhaps for the last time, next week. Two are known to be departing, with the...
FM auction set for kick off
FCC Auction 94 will put 112 allotments on the block with 85 qualified entrants ready to engage in the bidding. The call for offers...
Possible tough path for FCC chair candidate
Whoever winds up becoming the next chair of the FCC will have to go through the Senate Commerce Committee to get there, and at...
FCC causes license move to receiver to fall incomplete
GB Communications was licensee of WHNR-AM Cypress Gardens FL, and fell into default on two separate loans. The license went to a receiver, but...
Walden affirms support for voluntary incentive auctions
House Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-OR) addressed the auctions in a speech before the NAB, and also suggested that he’s open to discussing...
Coalition calls on Obama for public-oriented FCC chair
That’s as in protecting the public interest. Written on the stationary of Common Cause, public interest groups want an FCC chair committed to promoting...
Researchers make case for SCOTUS cameras
Robert Green and Adam Rosenblatt of research firm Penn Schoen Berland says that the vast majority of Americans favor the use of cameras and...
Political payday for SC-1 broadcasters
An opening in the US House of Representatives for South Carolina’s 1st District has a lot going for it that your average congressional race...
Witnesses set for Senate communications hearing
Not just any communications – rural communications. That’s what the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet will be discussing on Tuesday 4/9/13....